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On Coreference and the Semantic Web

Glaser, H., Lewy, T., Millard, I. and Dowling, B. (2007) On Coreference and the Semantic Web. Technical Report , Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton. (Submitted)

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Much of the Semantic Web relies upon open and unhindered interoperability between diverse systems; the successful convergence of multiple ontologies and referencing schemes is key. However, this is hampered by the difficult problem of coreference, which is the occurrence of multiple or inconsistent identifiers for a single resource. This paper investigates the origins of this phenomenon and how it is resolved in other fields. With this in mind, we have developed and tested an effective methodology for coreference resolution in the Semantic Web at large. This framework allows the user to a) record identified instances of coreference in a usable and retrievable manner b) integrate new and existing systems for reference management, and c) provide a thesaurus-like consistent reference service capable of providing on-tap resolutions to interested applications.

Item Type:Technical Report
Creator/Authors:
Hugh Glaser
Tim Lewy
Ian Millard
Ben Dowling
Keywords:Online Information Systems - Web-based services, Software Engineering - Interoperability, Reference management, Coreference, Web services
Research Group:Old ECS Groups > Dependable Systems and Software Engineering Research Group
Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science
Date:14 December 2007
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ID Code:15245
Last Modified:23 Sep 2011 10:36
Deposited On:03 Mar 2008 09:45 by Glaser, Hugh

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